The lab was lucky enough to get to work with the European Space Agency (ESA) developing a microscope – Gravityscope – to image cell signalling in live cells on board a parabolic flight. Our team – SUGAR (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Uptake of Glucose and Real-time imaging) spent 12 months developing Gravityscope, a robust fluorescence microscope incorporating microfluidics, to image uptake of fluorescently tagged glucose in live yeast cells as plane gravity switched from normal to microgravity to hypergravity and back again – all over 90s – no mean feat!
Wollman Lab 